Poll: Miniaturised

Last week, Nintendo revealed a new redesign of their popular Wii console– the Wii Mini. It’s an odd decision, to say the least, and certainly unexpected. After all, Nintendo only just launched Wii U a few weeks ago, and that’s a brand new console. So why create a new Wii when it’s already been confirmed that there aren’t any more Wii games in the pipeline? We have no idea– and we’re certainly not going to try second-guessing Miyamoto on the reason behind its conception either.

We may have only just got our Wii Us, but hot damn that’s a mighty fine console!

Regardless of whether it’s the most ill-timed redesign in the history of consoles, though, we can’t deny it has a certain charm to it. That bright red casing, that rough, black matte finish… It’s certainly got a whole lot more character than the original white one, that’s for sure. And for $100, well, it would almost be rude not to. The question is, though, do you want one? We know it’s not coming to the UK any time soon, but if it does manage to jump the fence from being a Canadian exclusive, is the new design enough to tempt you to buy one? Let us know in the comments below (and don’t forget to vote in our poll)!

I know it’s usually done to reduce manufacturing costs (or in Sony’s case, just to be dicks) but nowhere else in the field of electronics do you see the trend of “wait a few years and get a cheaper one with _less_ features”.

My 3DS says that I have played Animal Crossing for over 3hrs; however I spent all of that time restarting so I could get pears as my native fruit. All I have accomplished so far is just setting up my tent. So, yeah I missed the Bug-Off yesterday. I saw the guy with the net standing around though!